Jodhpur/New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court has granted bail to a man accused of sexually harassing and stalking a minor girl, while imposing stringent conditions including a one-year ban on the use of all social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.A single-judge Bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Jain of the Jodhpur Bench passed the order while allowing the bail plea of the accused in a case registered at Mukta Prasad Nagar police station in Bikaner under Sections 7…
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Jaipur, May 26 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court has delivered a significant verdict in the long-pending matter concerning delays in Panchayat and Urban Local Body elections, dismissing contempt petitions filed against the state government and the State Election Commission while reiterating that elections must be completed by July 31.The Division Bench comprising Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal and Justice Anil Kumar Upman disposed of the contempt petitions after concluding that they no longer stay v…
Jaipur, May 25 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur has extended the interim bail of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is serving a life sentence in a rape case, until July 7. The relief was granted on medical grounds by a Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Yogendra Kumar Purohit.The court clarified that the interim bail will remain in force until July 7 or until the pronouncement of the reserved verdict on Asaram’s plea seeking suspension…
Jaipur, May 23 (IANS) Rajasthan Minister for Local Self-Government Jhabar Singh Kharra on Saturday said the state government is fully prepared to conduct panchayat and urban local body elections in line with the Rajasthan High Court’s recent directions.Kharra made the statement during the visit to Ajmer, where he laid the foundation stone for a convention centre near the Jhalkari Bai Memorial.He said the government would extend full cooperation to the State Election Commission for holding the …
Jaipur, May 22 (IANS) A dramatic scene unfolded at the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) headquarters on Friday after a court-appointed team arrived to attach the chair of Commissioner Om Kasera over alleged non-compliance with a Rajasthan High Court order pending for the past 13 years. The action was initiated following orders issued by the SCJM-1 (Senior Civil Judge-cum-Metropolitan Magistrate-1), Jaipur Metropolitan First Court, in the case of Chandrakant Nagar vs JDA and Others.Acting on th…
Jaipur, May 22 (IANS) In a significant development, the Rajasthan High Court on Friday directed the state government and the State Election Commission to conduct panchayat and urban local body elections by July 31, rejecting the government’s request to defer the polls until December. The division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice S.P. Sharma also directed the OBC Commission to submit its report by June 20 to facilitate the election process. The verdict came after the court reserved its orde…
Jaipur, May 22 (IANS) In a significant ruling affecting the state’s largest recruitment drive, the Rajasthan High Court has quashed category-wise merit lists in the Class IV Employee Recruitment-2024, where candidates were selected despite securing virtually zero marks. Hearing a petition filed by Vinod Kumar, the bench of Justice Anand Sharma on Friday ruled that no recruitment process can be conducted without prescribing minimum qualifying marks, observing that such appointments would be unc…
Jaipur, May 21 (IANS) The issue of alleged restrictions on the sale of petrol and diesel has reached the Rajasthan High Court, with the Petroleum Dealers Distributors Transporters Welfare Association challenging what it termed as arbitrary actions by public sector oil companies. A civil writ petition filed by the association came up for hearing before the bench of Justice Mukesh Rajpurohit at the Jodhpur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court.The court has fixed May 25 for the next hearing in the mat…
Jaipur, May 21 (IANS) In an effort aimed at reducing fuel consumption and lowering operational costs, the Rajasthan High Court administration has decided to conduct court proceedings through video conferencing for three days across both the Jodhpur Principal Bench and the Jaipur Bench.A notice issued by Registrar General Chanchal Mishra on Wednesday stated that, as a pilot initiative, cases will be heard virtually on May 22, May 26 and May 27, 2026.The decision follows a memorandum issued by the…
Jaipur, May 21 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court has granted interim relief to suspended RAS officer Pinky Meena by staying her suspension order in connection with a bribery case linked to the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project. The order was passed on Thursday by the bench of Justice Sudesh Bansal, which observed that the High Court had earlier stayed the suspension of another accused officer in the same case, RAS officer Pushkar Mittal, and that Pinky Meena’s case stood on a similar footing.The c…